Holy whirlwind, Batman!

I know you have all been anxiously awaiting my Coldplay post, ha. It's going to be a doozy let me tell you, I don't even know where to begin really. So it has to wait, I can't half ass it. It'll post it in due time but in the mean time so I don't get backlogged and you aren't reading about summery beaches in December I'll go ahead with this.

Brant and I were forced to take our holidays this week instead of next because the printer at work crapped out and since Brant wouldn't have been able to work, I wouldn't have been able to work either. It's worked out in our favour, I mean how could paid holidays not? ha.

I've been sucked into a whirlwind of family parties, friend hangouts and sushi eat offs - and I'm not complaining one bit!

Family!

Our holidays together (since I started mine earlier to go to Coldplay, more on that later!) started on Friday night when I got back from and excursiating drive from Toronto to Kingston which took 2 hours too long and then another hour and a half drive awaited me when I got back to Kingston as we had to drive to Sharbot Lake to help set up for Brant's Grandparents 50th (yes! 50!) wedding anniversary party. Which was throughly exhusting and totally fun.

It was also Brant's Grandpa's birthday the same day, a wedding anniversary and a birthday, smart guy. He never will forget his anniversary. The cakes were cute, as cute as Costco cakes can be. I was fascinated by the birthday cake, I didn't get a good picture of the fish on the cake but it was so cute.

Family photo time!!! This was the best one out of the bunch - it didn't help that Brant's 7 year old cousin insisted on taking the photo but I think it turned out pretty good. Brant's parents are to the left, his grandparents are in the middle, Brant and I on the right and Brant's brother and girlfriend in the front. I think this is the first family photo that has been taken since the 5 and a half years I've been around and will probably be the last one until we get married.

Brant's family is strange, they never take family photos really - it's such a daunting task for them and then they end up with the sneaky unflattering photos that Brant's mom will take from hip level and they'll complain about it forever.

My family ALWAYS had photos taken. My Grandma always had her camera with her. If you want to see the day I went to the zoo for the first time, got it. The day my eye was viciously scratched out by my brother, got it. The day I first I wore a bra, got it. Seriously every moment we spent with my grandparents there are photos for and I love it and wouldn't have it any other way.

Brant's family better get used to it now, I'm one sparkly belt away from turning into my Grandma.

Friends!

One awesome thing about having holidays this week is that Brian is home from the Navy on his three week leave and so far operation hang-out-with-Brian-and-Krista-everyday is a success! It started with a sushi date on Sunday, they must've thought that we were going to eat them out of business, but it was sooooooooo good, so gut bustingly good!

Brian and Brant loved their lives. They love each others lives. True love always and forever.

This is a true to life, honest to goodness true artists depiction of how we felt half way through. But we were getting our $13.99 worth it dammit!

We then sauntered over to Wal-Mart to walk off our sushi guts and act a fool. The following is case in point.

We tried to get thing boogy boards and beachy things for our Monday Adventure but they have replaced it all with fall and back-to-school crap already, C'mon! There's still good beaching weather. Effing Wal-Mart, bringing us down.

On Monday we went to Wolfe Island to my single most favourite place in the world. Big Sandy Bay. My parents would take us there when we were younger when it wasn't a Provincial Park and we had to work to get there.

When we used to go there we had to walk through waist deep swamps, shoe swallowing mud holes and fight off a million swarming mosquitoes. But then we got to this, soooooooo worth it. Loooooooooooooooooove.

We spent all day here. Mostly in the water fighting massive waves so I didn't take too many photos. Next time the water proof cameras are coming with so we can take picture of the awesome wave fights. We win at life. Tomorrow we are off to Ottawa with Krista and Brian to check out the museums and hang out with Traci, super excited! Hopefully we don't get stuck touring war museums all day and get to see somthing cool, here's hoping.

ox! e.